debar

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
8
Words With Friends
9
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/dɪˈbɑː(ɹ)/(UK)

Definition of debar

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)To exclude or shut out; to bar.
    “As for the guides, they were debarred from the pleasure of discourse, the one being placed in the van, and the other obliged to bring up the rear.”
    “The Minister of Transport has debarred BR workshops from seeking orders for private owners' wagons like this [...].”
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verb

  1. (transitive)To exclude or shut out; to bar.
    “As for the guides, they were debarred from the pleasure of discourse, the one being placed in the van, and the other obliged to bring up the rear.”
    “The Minister of Transport has debarred BR workshops from seeking orders for private owners' wagons like this [...].”
  2. (transitive)To hinder or prevent.
    “How can I then return in happy plight, That am debarr'd the benefit of rest?”
    “She had also been so long debarred from any interchange of feelings and sentiments—so surrounded by strangers, that it was a true enjoyment to meet with one, who, if she did not enter into many of the emotions connected with it, was yet able and ready to talk of the past.”
    “"Circumstances have arisen—circumstances beyond my control," he said and paused, "which will debar me from completing the course I had designed. It would seem, gentlemen, if I may put the thing clearly and briefly, that—Man has lived in vain."”
  3. (US, transitive)To prohibit (a person or company that has been convicted of criminal acts in connection with a government program) from future participation in that program.

name

  1. A city in western North Macedonia.

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Etymology

From Anglo-Norman debarrer.

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